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Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World resources

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Notes 1. The World, Words, and Meaning 1 . See, for instance, Kazimierz Łaski, “The Stabilization Plan for Poland,” Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter , 5 (1990): 444–58. See also Mario D. Nuti, Crisis, Reform, and Stabilization in Central Eastern Europe: Prospects and Western Re- sponse [in] La Grande Europa, la Nuova Europa: Opportunità e Rischi (Siena: Monte dei Paschi di Siena, 1990). The author of the present work has pub- lished extensively on this issue in scholarly journals since 1989. See also a po- lemic with Jeffrey Sachs, who had powerful infl uence on the Polish minister of fi cials at the time: Grzegorz W. Kołodko, nance and other high government offi “Patient Is Ready,” The Warsaw Voice , Dec. 4, 1989. 2 . Carl Sagan, “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,” Parade , Feb. 1. 1987. 3 . Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Supersti- tions, and Other Confusions of Our Time (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1997). 4 . Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (London: Harper Perennial, 2004). 5 . Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992). 6 . Isaac Getz and Alan G. Robinson, “Innovate or Die: Is That a Fact?” Creativity and Innovation Management , 12, no. 3 (2003): 130–36. www.black well-synergy.com. 7 . For more on the great postcommunist systemic changes see Grzegorz W. Kolodko, From Shock to Therapy. The Political Economy of Postsocialist Trans- formation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) 8 . The author of the present work joins with other authors in considering the lessons to be learned from the Polish transformation—what worked and what didn’t—and its applicability for other countries in the process of complex

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